Steve Yarbrough was born on August 29, 1956, in Indianola, Mississippi. After earning both his BA and MA at the University of Mississippi, Yarbrough moved to the University of Arkansas to pursue his MFA in creative writing in 1981, graduating in 1985. He is the author of a number of short story collections, including Family Men (1990), Mississippi History (1994) and Veneer (1998), as well as novels, including The Oxygen Man (1999), Prisoners of War (2004), Visible Spirits (2001) Stay Gone Days (2022), and The Realm of Last Chances (2013). Yarbrough is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Emerson College.
#1: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Steve Yarbrough at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#2: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Steve Yarbrough at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#3: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Steve Yarbrough at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
